Fall 2014 | Issue 5

Featured Writer



“Kids don’t serve any purpose for parents other than to be kids. I huff about expecting this or that from Barrett, but it’s a show: he’s enough in himself, at least for me, and he knows it. He doesn’t have to do much of anything. I’ll be satisfied.”

Fishing Spirit Lake - Ted Estess

      For thirty-one years, Ted Estess was the leader of Honors education at the University of Houston including as Founding Dean of the Honors College. Though he left the deanship in August of 2008, Estess remains a member of the Honors College Faculty and a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston while holding the Jane Morin Cizik Chair. He has contributed a wide range of scholarship and creative work and has incorporated this research into his teaching and service. In addition to the recently released Fishing Spirit Lake, he has published Be Well, The Cream Pitchera book on Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust writer Elie Wiesel and a number of articles on various writers and topics. 
Ted Estess

Selected Fiction


Continental Divides
Karen Kasaba

“My father held the road, and my mother read the map, while I luxuriated in the temporary absence of gravity, watching postcard abstractions of sky, trees, rocks and clouds pixilate through the window, an undulating display of elements. I imagined crossing the divide between the back seat and the front, to the world inhabited by my parents, and what it might feel like to be welcome there.”

Continental Divides - Karen Kasaba


Termites
Gloria Clemente


“In the living room, I found a channel with this comedian, who the audience just loved. A laugh track played, and I joined it. But from the corner of my eye I could see something moving along the ceiling.”

Termites - Gloria Clemente

 

Someone Else
Alison Wisdom


“…when their phones chimed and purred miles away from one another, each of them felt happy in a way they didn’t when it was Steve texting Daniel about Saturday’s tee time…”

Someone Else - Alison Wisdom